Data curation during a pandemic and lessons learned from COVID-19

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Kraemer, Moritz U.G.
Scarpino, Samuel V.
Marivate, Vukosi
Gutierrez, Bernardo
Xu, Bo
Lee, Graham
Hawkins, Jared B.
Rivers, Caitlin
Pigott, David M.
Katz, Rebecca

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Nature Research

Abstract

Detailed, accurate data related to a disease outbreak enable informed public health decision making. Given the variety of data types available across different regions, global data curation and standardization efforts are essential to guarantee rapid data integration and dissemination in times of a pandemic.

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Data availability The underlying dataset for Fig. 1a is available open access from the supplemental material in ref. 5, and datasets for Fig. 1b,c from the UNESCO World Heritage List 2021 in ref. 32.

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Data acquisition, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Scientific data, COVID-19 pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Citation

Kraemer, M.U.G., Scarpino, S.V., Marivate, V. et al. Data curation during a pandemic and lessons learned from COVID-19. Nature Computational Science 1, 9–10 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-020-00015-6.